Have the headcrabs ever zombified anything other than humans or Combine? - Page 6

zapevery1 · 11-02-2009, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Jinoru

How the crap can we defeat it then? Shouldn't it be smarter than us then?

size =/= IQ or how smart something is.

EDJE · 11-02-2009, 09:46 PM

Gorilla's heads are larger than ours. Ours contain more.

Jinoru · 11-02-2009, 10:03 PM

dang.

10char

IcarusNine · 11-02-2009, 10:14 PM

Many large animals have larger brains than us. Most of that brain mass goes to motor control and sensory input. Every pain receptor and every muscle has to be accounted for.

That a strider has a small brain for its body size is odd. That it has the brain of a primate, despite having fairly little in common with mammals in general, is just peculiar.

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Originally Posted by Jinoru

Its not a mouth.

It was a mouth in Half-Life.
It's a personal hygiene issue in Half-Life 2.
They made headcrab-ish sounds in Half-Life.
They speak with muffled cries in Half-Life 2.
Their blood was yellow in Half-Life.
Their blood is red in Half-Life 2.

Half-Life had mawmen.
Half-Life 2 has zombies.

EDJE · 11-02-2009, 11:48 PM

The Striders are Synths, meaning that the brains came from somewhere else.

(Although synth doesn't mean that.)

Some_weirdGuy · 11-03-2009, 12:19 AM

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It was a mouth in Half-Life.
It's a personal hygiene issue in Half-Life 2.
They made headcrab-ish sounds in Half-Life.
They speak with muffled cries in Half-Life 2.
Their blood was yellow in Half-Life.
Their blood is red in Half-Life 2.

Half-Life had mawmen.
Half-Life 2 has zombies.

HL1 headcrab zombies appear to be more mutated then the HL2 ones. Maybe the different colour blood and stuff is just cause they are further along... somehow (despite the fact that ravenholm would have been infected much longer then black mesa was, and should therefore have had more advanced zombies, not less advanced ones... oh well)

but it is a mouth in HL1, it has been confirmed as a mouth, maybe again if the HL2 ones are less developed then it just hasn't mutated fully into a mouth yet, and is still just a hole.

IcarusNine · 11-03-2009, 12:57 AM

It could be that the headcrabs are neutered by the combine and can't advance into full-on mawmen.

Though I'd just as easily go with the devs saying "we were watching a ton of zombie movies when we decided to turn traptown into Ravenholm".

Solarmech · 11-03-2009, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by IcarusNine

Though I'd just as easily go with the devs saying "we were watching a ton of zombie movies when we decided to turn traptown into Ravenholm".

You mean they whern't watching a bunch of zombie movies when they did Ravenholm? Does tha mean my 100 hour study of all the Living Dead movies was worthless?

sm

gorpie · 11-03-2009, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by EDJE

The Striders are Synths, meaning that the brains came from somewhere else.

(Although synth doesn't mean that.)

Why does their being synths mean their brain came from somewhere else?

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Originally Posted by Solarmech

You mean they whern't watching a bunch of zombie movies when they did Ravenholm? Does tha mean my 100 hour study of all the Living Dead movies was worthless?

sm

But did you read The Zombie Survival Guide? (I'd also recommend World War Z, though I don't know if it would help you "prepare"...)

Neveos · 11-03-2009, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by gorpie

Why does their being synths mean their brain came from somewhere else?

Well it doesn't mean that for sure, but the old concept for synths was that they were just an amalgamation of the best bio-tech from everywhere. This is a cut enemy called the combine synth super soldier:

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Comb..._Elite_Soldier

It was part human part synth. But the current games suggest that the combine either does not, or can not mix genes to that level, which is something I agree with. That was probably the strider's original brain, but that's not saying much because it has obviously been modified. It glows with electrical lights etc.

gorpie · 11-03-2009, 06:04 AM

Well, I agree that they can take a biological organism and change it to suit their needs. But it would make more sense to keep the original brain and modify that, than to install a new, "foreign" brain. The original would be better able to deal with the nervous system and all the subtle signals in it than a "foreign" brain would.

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11-02-2009, 09:46 PM	#77
EDJE Join Date: Oct 2009 Reputation: 9 Posts: 206	Gorilla's heads are larger than ours. Ours contain more.

11-02-2009, 10:03 PM	#78
Jinoru Join Date: Aug 2009 Reputation: 53 Posts: 1,195	dang. 10char

11-02-2009, 11:48 PM	#80
EDJE Join Date: Oct 2009 Reputation: 9 Posts: 206	The Striders are Synths, meaning that the brains came from somewhere else. (Although synth doesn't mean that.)

11-03-2009, 12:57 AM	#82
IcarusNine Join Date: Jun 2005 Reputation: 209 Posts: 870	It could be that the headcrabs are neutered by the combine and can't advance into full-on mawmen. Though I'd just as easily go with the devs saying "we were watching a ton of zombie movies when we decided to turn traptown into Ravenholm".

11-03-2009, 06:04 AM	#86
gorpie Join Date: Sep 2009 Reputation: 29 Posts: 961	Well, I agree that they can take a biological organism and change it to suit their needs. But it would make more sense to keep the original brain and modify that, than to install a new, "foreign" brain. The original would be better able to deal with the nervous system and all the subtle signals in it than a "foreign" brain would.